Assignment #1
Opioid Use, Addiction, and Overdoses:
Please read the Psychology Discussion Requirements fully, and then Read pages 174 – 184 in your text.
Opioid use, addiction, and overdoses have increased to alarming rates in the United States in recent years. Millions of Americans are affected by the opioid epidemic every day.
Read Volkow et al.’s (2014) article and Brown’s (2018) articles (PDF’s below) before discussing the following questions.
References
Brown, A. R. (2018). A systematic review of psychosocial interventions in treatment of opioid addiction, Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions. Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/1533256X.2018.1485574
Coon, D., Mitterer, J.O., & Martini, T. (2022). Introduction to psychology: Gateways to mind and behavior (16th ed.). Cengage Learning.
Volkow, N. D., Frieden, T. R., Hyde, P. S., & Cha, S. S. (2014). Medication-assisted therapies — tackling the opioid-overdose epidemic. New England Journal of Medicine, 370(22), 2063-2066. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1402780
For this week’s main post, answer all of the following questions. Be sure to include factual, properly cited information in your post.
- What are some ways that opioid addiction is affecting the United States?
- What are some forms of treatment available to those suffering from opioid addiction?
- If you had a friend or family member suffering from opioid addiction, what sort of help would you recommend they seek?
Requirement; 300 Words with APA references
Assignment #2
Week 2 Assignment- Dreams
Your Assignment
Read the section titled “REM Sleep and Dreaming” on page 168 and “Dream Theories” on pages 169-170 in your textbook. These sections discuss theories on dreams, the history of dream interpretation, the most common characteristics of dreams, and the meaning of dreams.
Check out these websites:
- Freud Museum: Dream Analysis-You may have to click on “Discover Psychoanalysis” then scroll down to “The Interpretation of Dreams” or you can past the following link into your web browser.
(Direct Link: https://www.freud.org.uk/learn/discover-psychoanalysis/the-interpretation-of-dreams/)
Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychology: Becoming The Dream – A Gestalt Approach
(Direct Link: https://iahip.org/page-1076535 )
Freud’s “Interpretation of Dreams”
(Direct Link: https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Dreams/dreams.pdf )
For this week’s Assignment, answer the following questions in APA Format and in a word document. Be sure to include factual, properly cited information in your Assignment.
Write about a dream that really made an impact on you. It can be a recurring dream, a scary dream, a happy dream, or an especially vivid dream.
What do the above websites say about the interpretation of your dream?
Do you feel these interpretations are accurate? Why or why not?
What do you think is the meaning behind this dream?
Directions:
- Write at least 300 words in a word document about this topic. Post your word count in your assignment.
- Make sure to cite sources in your assignment using APA format. The source for question 2 must be the websites listed, for question 1 and 3, it may be your textbook or any other source you research. The entire assignment, from title page to reference page must be in APA 7th edition format.
- Submit your assignment using the Week 2 Dream Assignment link above.
